Kenneth S Calhoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth S Calhoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth S |
| FAMILY NAME | Calhoon |
| SIGNATURE | CALHOON K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Peripheral Visions
Peripheral Visions
The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema, the eight essays in this volume, though some more explicitly than others, have Kracauer as their interlocutor. The first major cr…
Natur, Raume, Landschaften
Krause, Burkhardt, and Ulrich Scheck, eds. Natur, Raume, Landschaften. 2. Internationales Kingstoner Symposium. Munich: Iudicium, 1996. 288 pp. DM 56.00 paperback. Schulz, Karla L., and Kenneth S. Calhoon, eds. The Idea of the Forest: German and American Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Trees. German Life and Civilization, 14. New York: Lang, 1996. 221 pp. $49.95 hardcover. Any attempt to come to terms with such broad concepts as space…
New Literature on Novalis
The Education of the Human Race
My purpose in applying Freudian terminology to Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts is not to subject Lessing to a psychoanalytical interpretation, or if so, then to invert that reading in a manner that implicates Freud in anthropological discourse of Enlightenment. To read Lessing psychoanalytically is to cast suspicion on certain eighteenth-century desires by scrutinizing figures through which those desires are ciphered. The aspiration to rati…
Language and Romantic Irony in Novalis' Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
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Language and Romantic Irony in Novalis' Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
The Education of the Human Race
My purpose in applying Freudian terminology to Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts is not to subject Lessing to a psychoanalytical interpretation, or if so, then to invert that reading in a manner that implicates Freud in anthropological discourse of Enlightenment. To read Lessing psychoanalytically is to cast suspicion on certain eighteenth-century desires by scrutinizing figures through which those desires are ciphered. The aspiration to rati…
New Literature on Novalis
Natur, Raume, Landschaften
Krause, Burkhardt, and Ulrich Scheck, eds. Natur, Raume, Landschaften. 2. Internationales Kingstoner Symposium. Munich: Iudicium, 1996. 288 pp. DM 56.00 paperback. Schulz, Karla L., and Kenneth S. Calhoon, eds. The Idea of the Forest: German and American Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Trees. German Life and Civilization, 14. New York: Lang, 1996. 221 pp. $49.95 hardcover. Any attempt to come to terms with such broad concepts as space…
Peripheral Visions
The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema, the eight essays in this volume, though some more explicitly than others, have Kracauer as their interlocutor. The first major cr…
Peripheral Visions
Art (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works)